[chromatic]

Perl does this, Perl 6 especially.

[alnayyir]

Sadly x86/arm/mips/sparc/power processors aren't Perl machines and Perl6 thusly can't be used to make a kernel for a Unix derivative.

[stcredzero]

One could probably get Scheme to do this and use it to make a kernel. But what would be the point of making it a Unix machine then? Make it a Scheme machine.

[eru]

They aren't C machines, either. But I agree, that Perl is probably harder to compile to native code than C.

[bdr]

Yes, I think we all wept when we first learned that.